Call for Abstracts 

Our Call for Abstracts is now open!  University students (both undergraduate and graduate), postdocs, and trainees are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at our annual symposium. Abstract submissions are due by 5:00 p.m. on January 24, 2025. For more information and to submit your abstract, please visit the links below.

Call for Abstracts Details [pdf]

Abstract Submission Form

 

Symposium 2024 Presentations

Expand allSession 1: Nutrition Research in Diverse Populations and Settings

• Delia West, PhD
  • Delivering Digital Behavioral Weight Management Interventions in Rural Populations
• Aliye Cepni, PhD
  • Addressing Disparities in Pediatric Obesity: Exploring the Ideal Dose of Structured Summer Programming for Mitigating Accelerated Summer BMI Gain
• Susan Yeargin, PhD
  • The prevalence and measures of dehydration in student-athletes
• James Hebert, ScD
  • Diet and Health Disparities in Colorectal Cancer: The Inflammation and Metabolic Dysregulation Connection

Session 2: Food is Medicine

• Elizabeth Adams, PhD
  • The Future of Food is Medicine
• Edward Frongillo, PhD
  • Food-based interventions to support management of chronic diseases
• Caroline Rudisill, PhD 
  • Connecting patients to food resources within the clinical setting
• Kelly Duane & Kim Hollins
  • Let Food be Thy Medicine: A look at FoodShare SC Food is Medicine Interventions

Session 3: Introducing our Newest Faculty Affiliates

• Nandita Perumal, PhD
  • Causes and consequences of perinatal outcomes in vulnerable populations: the role of nutrition
• Eckton Chinyanga, PhD
  • Did Covid-19 Influence Fruit & Vegetable Consumption
• Devin Bowes, PhD
  • Using community wastewater to understand population-level dietary behavior: Current status and future outlook
• Demetrius Abshire, PhD 
  • An Overview of “GameDay Ready”: A Behavioral Weight Management Intervention for Black Men Living in the Rural South

Poster Prize Winners

Congratulations to our poster prize winners from left to right:

• Third Place: Gitanjali Lall
  • Social Norms around IYCF in rural Bangladesh: Learnings from the Alive & Thrive Program
• Second Place: Morgan Boncyk
  • Identifying and Defining Constructs for Assessment of Household- and Individual-Level Drivers of Food Choice
• First Place: Sharraf Samin
  • Consumption, sources, and perceptions of unhealthy foods among adults and adolescents in rural South Asia

 

The full symposium program is available here.

Learn more about our previous Nutrition Symposia.